This person is a nice person, who's published a huge amount of positive work into the Ruby community. I do wish however they'd change their name from the perspective of a figurehead in the community, we have code referencing their repos and it's just awkward with interns to explain.

Why would a person need to conform to some uniform grey norm to be able to contribute in any capacity?

Ruby's community has been all sorts of whimsy and quirky over the years.

I very much enjoy Tenderlove being the community figurehead he is as is: kind, empathetic, genuine, open-minded, and generally wholesome.

> it's just awkward with interns to explain.

I've never had any trouble talking about Aaron Patterson a.k.a Tenderlove to coworkers, interns or otherwise.